Tag Archives: psychosis

HV Workshop | ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | FEB 2024

Posted on December 28, 2023 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What if everything you think you know about hearing voices is wrong? Or if not wrong, then it at least limits your ability to: understanding a person’s struggle with experiences like difficult-to-hear voices and others that get called “psychosis” and … Continue reading →

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Out Of My Mind – podcast series

Posted on December 5, 2023 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From Aotearoa / NZ, this is an excellent podcast series of first-person accounts . In each of the seven episodes of Out of My Mind, one person talks to journalist Adam Dudding about their life, and the view from inside … Continue reading →

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Why Mass Murderers May Not Be Very Different From You Or Me

Posted on August 18, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Opinion piece by Richard A Friedman in NYT, 8 Aug 2019. The current [and for some while] habit of dismissing mass murders as acts of “mentally ill monsters” has no basis in anything but unthinkin predjudice and habitual hatred – … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1: Accepting Voices – Thu 29th Nov 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pleased to announce, in community partnership with Inner City Family Health Team, this special opportunity to participate in our highly valued “liberating” , emancipatory”, even “universe-tilting” Workshop #1: Accepting Voices. This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical, human … Continue reading →

Posted in Event, Healing, hearing voices, human diversity, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness", psychosis | Tagged hearing voices, human experience, psychosis, Training, workshop | 1 Comment

Workshop#1 Accepting Voices in Calgary- Sat 5th May, 2018

Posted on January 13, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Workshop Accepting Voices a unique non-diagnostic and creative way of understanding a range of human experiences that have been mystified and made taboo and yet which are remarkably common and really not that hard to understand.
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Psychosis 2.0 Infosheet

Posted on December 18, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Fresh ideas and different perspectives on what clinicians call “psychosis” – but you don’t have to – and put together by people who’ve been there and wanted to share some of what they learned from their experiences. You don’t have … Continue reading →

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Family Education Night – Whitby – Thu 30th Nov

Posted on November 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Part of ongoing capacity-building and awareness raising work in Durham Region in partnership with Durham Mental Health Services, CMHA Durham and Ontario Shores. Join Kevin Healey and Dave Umbongo part presentation , part dialogue and part Q&A in – Whitby, Thursday … Continue reading →

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talking about “psychosis”…

Posted on July 11, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Psychosis is not a “thing” except as a kind of aperture or a lens through which we view someone struggling. It’s an interpretation, a way of seeing, of categorizing, naming, and talking about a person’s struggle. That that lens, that … Continue reading →

Posted in dialogue, Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas | Tagged dissociation, gaze, Hallucination, psychosis | 2 Comments

New! Workshop for Clinicians – Hearing Voices Part 1 : Learning to listen to “auditory hallucinations”

Posted on January 23, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Very pleased to announce this new workshop specifically designed for experienced clinicians, Approved by Ontario Psychological Association and offered through Oshawa Psychotherapy Training Institute. Facilitators: Kevin Healey … Continue reading →

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What is “psychosis”?

Posted on October 17, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Look it up and you’ll find all kinds of nonsense up/downloaded as answer to that question, most commonly: “Loss of contact with reality.” What does that even mean? For sure, whoever says that to you most assuredly has. Truth … Continue reading →